News from Estonia

The first edition of Estonian Film magazine is out. The cover stars are Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis, the co-writers of “Compartment No 6” – a Finnish entry to this year’s Oscars by director Juho Kuosmanen. Livia Ulman and Andris Feldmanis were awarded with Cultural Endowment main award this year.Estonian...

Estonia and the United States are close Allies and share a strong partnership based on a common commitment to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. We work closely together bilaterally, as NATO Allies, through the U.S.-EU relationship, and within international organizations like the OSCE and the UN to...

Canadian-Estonian Donates More Than €2 Million to Tartu University A Canadian-Estonian has left a donation of more than €2 million to the University of Tartu's Institute of Estonian Language following her death. The money will be used for research and to create a scholarship fund. The inheritance was left to...

The kind of war with Ukraine promised to us by the U.S. was never Russia's plan, foreign policy expert Kadri Liik said on ERR's program "Otse Uudistemajast" (Straight From the Newsroom) on February 16. Kadri Liik. Source: ERR According to Liik, an offensive with a high number of casualties and...

The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) held its annual policy forum virtually from September 28th to 30th. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and Markus Villig, co-founder and CEO of Bolt, were among the experts consulted on this year’s focus of “Fit to Lead:  Renewing the...

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was in Washington, DC on July 13th and 14th for meetings with Members of Congress to discuss the Baltic Security Initiative and other issues relating to U.S.-Estonia security cooperation.   Karin Shuey, Estonian American National Council (EANC) Washington, DC Director, and her colleagues at the...

Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the June 14, 1941 Soviet deportation of Estonians took place nationwide on June 14th. An estimated 10,205 Estonians were deported without trial and on a purely arbitrary basis, including children, women and the elderly, deep into Soviet territory, meaning primarily the Siberian Gulag system...

A masters student at the Estonian Academy of Arts has won the best animation award at the Palm Springs International Animation Festival. "You Are Not a Kiwi" created using watercolors by Maria Savaleva premiered in the festival's main program and won in the watercolor-animation category. The film deals with integration...

Žorik was mentioned in the article describing the Kassi/abi cat shelter calender on this page two weeks ago.  The legendary, elderly (14+ year-old), ailing Kalamaja neighborhood lind/prii (outlaw, "bird free", free as a bird), as he is known, was safely retired to an outdoor enclosure in the countryside this past...